Shift Left: The Key to Delivering Quality Software at Speed

As organizations move toward Agile development and DevOps practices for continuous delivery, highly automated integration testing is a necessity.

Without a shift left test approach—early and often—developers and testers find it difficult or impossible to find defects until system parts are integrated together in system test. In addition, test automation is critical to keeping up with needed regression testing.

With the right practices and automation tools in place, you’ll be able to refresh test environments quicker, reproduce defects more easily, find critical problems earlier, and run needed regression tests every iteration.

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